We're currently in the middle of a 12-month comparison period after Thames Water made us fit a meter. According to the monthly updates we are using an average on 677 litres of water, PER DAY!!!
This just cannot be right. We use the dishwasher every day (average 13-litres), we take two showers (average 60 litres each), we have one bath (average 80-litres) and only use the washing machine once or twice a week (average 60-70 litres per wash).
It's a terrace house with four of us (out for most of the day and out most of the time at weekends) and the numbers I'm getting are for more than a family of six.
I calculate, based on average figures on the web, we must use at the very most 350 litres per day – 120 litres (2 showers) + 80 litres (one bath) + 15 litres (dishwasher) + 70 litres (washing machine) = 250 litres + 100 litres for all other stuff (filling the water filter/cooking/washing veg/half-bowl for washing up glasses, etc.) We don't even use the washing machine every day.
Where is the other 300+ litres coming from? There is either a massive leak somewhere that we haven't discovered, or the meter is wrong.
Has anyone else had problems with meter readings?